Anguish Quote by Lucy Stone

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the…

— Victoria Woodhull

Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that…

— Susan B. Anthony

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

— John Mason Brown

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

— Frederick Douglass

There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when…

— Susan B. Anthony

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

— Shirley Chisholm

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

For too long, women in America were excluded from our government and the political process.

— Byron Donalds

It is an unfortunate fact that in many parts of the world women are considered property. An awful lot of injustice is obviously due…

— Madeleine Albright

“No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. We are victims of evil customs.…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

There is much that women can bring into politics that would make our world a kinder, gentler place for humanity to thrive in.

— Corazon Aquino

It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.

— Lucy Burns